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  •  Welcome Robin Tremblay-McGaw

    Welcome Robin Tremblay-McGaw

    Robin Tremblay-McGaw comes to us from having recently taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College in the Language and Thinking Program. She holds a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire; an M.A. from San Francisco State University; an M.L.I.S. from the University of California Berkeley; and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include: Poetics and poetry, narrative and narrative theory; feminist and queer theory. Currently she is working on a manuscript, an examination of the work of seven San Francisco Bay Area writers, entitled "This Side of a Human Future: Poetry Wars and Imagined Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1975-1990."

    Recent articles and blog posts include "Enclosure and Run: The Fugitive Recyclopedia of Harryette Mullen's Writing," in the summer 2010 issue of the Journal MELUS and "About Reading" on the Language and Thinking blog. Her work has appeared in Little Red Leaves, On: Contemporary Practice, HOW2, Crayon, Mirage, Digital Artifact Magazine, POM2, Narrativity, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004), and elsewhere. Tremblay-McGaw edits the blog www.xpoetics.blogspot.com.

  •  Welcome Noel Radley

    Noel Radley has recently taught Rhetoric and Writing and English courses at the University of Texas at Austin. For three years, she has been an instructor and researcher in the Digital Writing and Research Lab. Radley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UT-Austin. She has an M.A. from UT-Austin and a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame, where she was a graduate of the Arts and Letters/Science Honors Program. This year Radley will be teaching Critical Thinking and Writing courses as well as an Advanced Writing course.

  •  Welcome Jean-Pierre Lacrampe

    Jean-Pierre Lacrampe has taught at St. Mary’s College, San Jose State University, Menlo College, and Santa Clara University (in the Communication Department) after receiving his MFA from St. Mary’s College and his BA in English from Arizona State University. His work has been published by Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Instant City, KQED's "The Writer's Block," and in Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit.

    In late August Lacrampe happily joined the English Department at Santa Clara University. He will be teaching CTW 1 and 2, in addition to Global Screenwriting in the Communication Department.

    You can read one his pieces, “My Romantic Life: A Walking Tour of San Francisco,” at: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-romantic-life-a-walking-tour-of-san-francisco. Or a brief essay at: http://www.glimmertrain.com/vsfjuly09.html

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